R. Deming Issacson architectural drawings, 1891-2000 0000352

Finding aid prepared by J. Gibbs
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
11/09/2016


Title: R. Deming Isaacson architectural drawings
Identifier/Call Number: 0000352
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 24.0 Linear feet 8 rolls
Date (inclusive): 1981-2000
Location note: 9 rolls of drawings / ADC rolls shelves
creator: Isaacson, R. Deming

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of R. Deming Issacson, 2016.

Conditions Governing Access note

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Scope and Contents note

The collection contains full sets of original (graphite on paper) architectural drawings for nine selected projects, designed by R. Deming Issacson in the Central Coast area of California, between 1981 and 2000. Most of the designs are for private residences. Also included are drawings for a tasting room at Buttonwood Farms Winery.

Preferred Citation note

R. Deming Issacson architectural drawings. Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biographical/Historical note

R. Deming Isaacson has practiced architecture in the Central Coast region of California for most of his career. In the late 1970s, Isaacson was a principal in the architectural firm of Rowland, Neumann and Isaacson. In 1980 he formed his one-man office, R. Deming Isaacson, Architect.
His apprenticeship in the late 1960s and early 1970s was with William L. Pereira & Associates in Newport Beach, California; Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo in Hamden, Connecticut; Warner and Wilson in Santa Barbara; and Lutah M. Riggs, F.A.I.A., also in Santa Barbara, California.
Isaacson received a Bachelor of Architecture from Arizona State University in 1968. He graduated from Midland School near Los Olivos, California in 1961.

Custodial History note

Gift of R. Deming Isaacson.

Roll 1

Buttonwood Farms tasting room building (Solvang, Calif.) 1992

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper.
Roll 2

Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Ron house (Buellton, Calif.) 2000

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper.
Roll 3

Gottlieb, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew house (Santa Ynez, Calif.) 1994

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper.
Roll 4

Gottlieb, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew house (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1997

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper
Roll 5

Jarchow, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. house (Santa Ynez, Calif.) 1990

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper.
Roll 6

Lovelace, Mr. and Mrs. Jon house (Santa Barbara, Calif.): canopy, service porch and drive 1993

Scope and Contents note

Full set of drawings for additions and changes to the house (canopy, porch and drive), which originally was designed by George Washington Smith in the 1920s.
Roll 7

Lyon, Katherine M. house (Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, Calif.): proposed addition 1995

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings for proposed addition, graphite on paper.
Roll 8

Pascal-Rhodes house addition (Carpinteria, Calif.) 1996

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings for addition to existing house.
Roll 9

Ryan, John house (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1981

Scope and Contents note

Full set of original architectural drawings, graphite on paper.